Smith to “do an Eccleston”?

• 1st April 2010 • Blog Post by Seb Patrick •

This can’t be right. BBC News are reporting on rumours that have sprung up overnight, that Matt Smith has elected to only stay on as the Doctor for a single series, and will be leaving at the end of this year. There’s already heavy speculation, most notably over at Digital Spy, that Paterson Joseph is already signed on to play the Twelfth Doctor, having been secretly cast at the same time as Smith in order to prepare for a surprise regeneration in this year’s Christmas special.

More on this as we get it.

Seb Patrick once met Paul McGann, who immediately pretended to be Mark McGann. He writes for Den of Geek, BBC America, Film4 and the official Red Dwarf website, among others. He owns over thirty toy Daleks and wishes the Dapol factory tour was still open.

My idea is that every single thing we encounter on April 1st must be a lie until midday, but that our perception is changed so that we just don’t know that it’s April 1st. And then at midday we suddenly realise, and go “Ah fuck it’s April 1st isn’t it? Jesus what a fool* I am.”

Not sure how it could be done, but that would be much better I think. It would make the world a better place come that midday of every April 1st.

* not “cunt” or “twat” or anything like that – it must be “fool”. But the rest of the sentence should be rife with as much swearing as possible – my example is quite toned down, actually (I’m trying to sell the idea to schools).